Remove the default page footer links

The original installation of Magento comes with standard links at the bottom of every page – links such as ‘Site Map’, ‘Search Terms’, ‘Advanced Search’, ‘Orders and Returns’, ‘Contact Us’, ‘RSS’ and a store switcher.

If you want to add additional links or change the format (ie columns etc) of the links, the easiest way is to remove the ‘canned’ links and rebuild a new structure in the page footer.

In researching how to remove these, I found every solution imaginable from setting the visibility of the ‘links’ class to disabling the various functions – none of them was appropriate for what I needed.

The easiest, quickest, and simplest method was to go into your local.xml file and remove them there.

OPEN: app/design/frontend/DEFAULT/YOURTHEME/layout/local.xml and add the following section based on your requirements:

Magento Tips & Techniques

Magento is one of the leading E-Commerce platforms. The information provided in this site hopefully will help you with some "tweaks" to enhance the shopping experience or assist the administrator.

The posts are in no particular order but are added whenever I think of a tip, technique, code snippet or change that I think might be useful to the community.

I've only included 'hacks' that can be implemented by someone with a general Magento structure knowledge and basic php skills. More sophisticated Magento modifications are available from numerous sites and the Magento Knowledge base.